jlrickert / termite

A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

Termite looks for the configuration file in the following order: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/termite/config, ~/.config/termite/config, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/termite/config, /etc/xdg/termite/config.

Termite's exit status is 1 on a failure, including a termination of the child process from an uncaught signal. Otherwise the exit status is that of the child process.

DEPENDENCIES

The vte-ng project is required until VTE exposes the necessary functions for keyboard text selection and URL hints (if ever). A simple patch has been submitted upstream but they're unwilling to expose functionality that's not required by GNOME Terminal even if there's no extra maintenance (it already exists internally) and no additional backwards compatibility hazards.

If no browser is configured and $BROWSER is unset, xdg-open from xdg-utils is used as a fallback.

BUILDING

git clone --recursive https://github.com/jlrickert/termite.git
cd termite && make

KEYBINDINGS

INSERT MODE

ctrl-shift-x	activate url hints mode
ctrl-shift-r	reload configuration file
ctrl-shift-c	copy to CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-v	paste from CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-u	unicode input (standard GTK binding)
ctrl-shift-e	emoji (standard GTK binding)
ctrl-tab	start scrollback completion
ctrl-shift-space	start selection mode
ctrl-shift-t	open terminal in the current directory1
ctrl-shift-up	scroll up a line
ctrl-shift-down	scroll down a line
shift-pageup	scroll up a page
shift-pagedown	scroll down a page
ctrl-shift-l	reset and clear
ctrl-+	increase font size
ctrl--	decrease font size
ctrl-=	reset font size to default

SELECTION MODE

q or escape or ctrl-[	enter insert mode
x	activate url hints mode
v	visual mode
V	visual line mode
ctrl-v	visual block mode
hjkl or arrow keys	move cursor left/down/up/right
w or shift-right	forward word
e	forward to end of word
b or shift-left	backward word
W or ctrl-right	forward WORD (non-whitespace)
E	forward to end of WORD (non-whitespace)
B or ctrl-left	backward WORD (non-whitespace)
H	jump to the top of the screen
M	jump to the middle of the screen
L	jump to the bottom of the screen
0 or home	move cursor to the first column in the row
^	beginning-of-line (first non-blank character)
$ or end	end-of-line
g	jump to start of first row
G	jump to start of last row
ctrl-u	move cursor a half screen up
ctrl-d	move cursor a half screen down
ctrl-b	move cursor a full screen up (back)
ctrl-f	move cursor a full screen down (forward)
y	copy to CLIPBOARD
/	forward search
?	reverse search
u	forward url search
U	reverse url search
o	open the current selection as a url
Return	open the current selection as a url and enter insert mode
n	next search match
N	previous search match

During scrollback search, the current selection is changed to the search match and copied to the PRIMARY clipboard buffer.

With the text input widget focused, up/down (or tab/shift-tab) cycle through completions, escape closes the widget and enter accepts the input.

In hints mode, the input will be accepted as soon as termite considers it a unique match.

PADDING

Internal padding can be added by using CSS to style Termite. Adding the following snippet to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (or ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css) will add uniform 2px padding around the edges:

.termite {
    padding: 2px;
}

This can also be used to add varying amounts of padding to each side via standard usage of the CSS padding property.

TERMINFO

When working on a remote system with termite's terminfo missing, an error might occur:

Error opening terminal: xterm-termite

To solve this issue, install the termite terminfo on your remote system.

On Arch Linux:

pacman -S termite-terminfo

On other systems:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thestinger/termite/master/termite.terminfo
tic -x termite.terminfo

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1. The directory can be set by a process running in the terminal. For example, with zsh:

   if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
     . /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
     __vte_osc7
   fi

   :

   For example, with bash:

   if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
     . /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
     __vte_prompt_command
   fi

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